Lesson 8 Sr. Primary

It is interesting that the scriptural account of Jesus casting out the money-changers takes place at the beginning of his ministry and then again in his final days, creating a frame of prophecy and fullfillment

Lesson 8 Jr. Primary

Here are some great songs to go along with your lesson! Latter-day Prophets , Follow the Prophet, and Article of Faith #5

I Have A Question

Teaching Primary inevitably demands innovative crowd-management techniques.  What reverence issues have you encountered and what works best for dealing with them?

Defense and A Refuge

To get us started I've posted some of my thoughts on this theme.  I quoted some of your thoughts as "comments" below.

Enjoy!!

PRIMARY AS A "DEFENSE AND A REFUGE"

3 Nephi 22:13  And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children

As my imagination runs with the idea of “defense” and “refuge”, I think of Primary as

... and in FHE

We were discussing the importance of temple marriage in FHE to celebrate Valentine's Day last Monday.  As my husband finished talking about our sealing in the SLC temple, my youngest son, who definitely has some speech issues, piped up excitedly, "And that's how Mommy became your awful wedded wife."

From The Mouths of Babes

Primary children can make the sweetest and funniest comments in class. We would like to feature some of these memorable sayings and interactions on our Primary blog. Please share any special teaching moments with Lora Cook so that we can all enjoy and appreciate the priceless teaching experiences we are so fortunate to have as Primary workers.

To start off this segment of the blog, I will share something that happened in the Sunbeams class that I was substitute teaching for recently. The lesson was about Jesus Christ being the son of God. I had asked the children questions about their own fathers such as, “What is your dad’s name? What does your dad do?” Three of the Sunbeams had fathers who were all going to become dentists. Later in the lesson I was telling the children stories from the Savior’s life such as his birth, teaching at the Temple, and also his baptism by John the Baptist. We then played a review game where I had pictures of these events and when the picture of Jesus being baptized was shown again, I asked the children who baptized Jesus. They were all looking at each other and then one girl excitedly said, “Oh, it was John!”  Her friend added, “Yeah, John the Dentist!” They all nodded in agreement.

WELCOME!

Hello to the wonderful primary workers of the Hingham Ward!  This blog is not an official church website, but it is designed to be a forum for us to share ideas as we prepare lessons, to share resources, and to discuss any issues that might come up as we strive to teach our children and help them come unto Christ.

Our hope is that this will improve teaching but also that it will provide a valuable way for teachers to connect with one another.